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Often appears with: public works left unfinished · public spectacles · public finance and debt · mount caelius fire indemnities · festivals, games, and spectacle
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1)
Suetonius describes Tiberius’s reign as stingy in public works and spectacles, modestly aiding some senators, offering lending and fire indemnities, and targeting soldiers and provinces selectively.
his own subjects, and fled to Antioch with a vast treasure, claiming the protection of the Roman people, his allies, was treacherously robbed of all his money, and afterwards murdered. L. He first manifested hatred towards his own relations in the case of his brother Drusus, betraying him by the production of a letter to himself, in which Drusus proposed that Augustus should be forced to restore the public liberty.…